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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Setting up Fluxbox in BT4 R1

So this guide is for those that choose to upgrade from BackTrack 4 final to the R1.This does not really apply if you are downloading the R1.iso. Please keep in mind that this is this a new release and there may be bugs (please report them)! This post will also assume you have backtrack-dragon installed. You can use this to setup the rest.---------------------------CODE----------------------------------------------------root@bt:~# apt-get install backrack-dragon---------------------------CODE----------------------------------------------------Once this finishes run dragon, select desktop and finally desktop fluxbox

Once this finishes then you need to run flux-for-back---------------------------CODE---------------------------------------------------root@bt:~# flux-for-back---------------------------CODE---------------------------------------------------

You will see several options to choose from. We are concerned with the -s option so---------------------------CODE---------------------------------------------------root@bt:~# flux-for-back -s---------------------------CODE---------------------------------------------------

This will bring us a bunch of new choices. In order to build the menu choose either 1 or 2 based on if you want the icons.Depending on your setup this may take a bit of time. Mine took about 6 or 7 minutes.Once it is finished it will exit the script and return you to the prompt. At this point you can consider yourself done.So now you should have the pretty new menu setup for BTLooking like this.

At this point you can exit the script. If you want to change the background then you can use the new menu right click by the way is how to access it. So right click and select "flux menu" at the bottom. Then "Backgrounds" "Set BackTrack default Background".

Try harder after setting up desktop fluxbox leaves me in dragon and ctrl c does not clear dragon from the TRY HARDER message maybe cause I'm in virtual box, and other commands or hotkey combo do the same to get out of TRYHARDER >> dragon?